{"id":42221,"date":"2022-03-07T08:53:15","date_gmt":"2022-03-06T23:53:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/mar\/07\/south-koreas-presidential-candidates-face-balancing-act-amid-rising-anti-china-sentiment"},"modified":"2022-03-07T08:53:15","modified_gmt":"2022-03-06T23:53:15","slug":"south-koreas-presidential-candidates-face-balancing-act-amid-rising-anti-china-sentiment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=42221","title":{"rendered":"South Korea\u2019s presidential candidates face balancing act amid rising anti-China sentiment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With an election days away, the two leading candidates must negotiate pitfalls of a reliance on US for security and on China for trade<\/p>\n<p>When Moon Jae-in, the outgoing president of South Korea, returned home from Washington in May last year, his foreign minister, Chung Eui-yong, rushed to clarify the mention of Taiwan <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/speeches-remarks\/2021\/05\/21\/remarks-by-president-biden-and-h-e-moon-jae-in-president-of-the-republic-of-korea-at-press-conference\/\">in his joint statement with Joe Biden<\/a> \u2013 a highly sensitive subject for South Korea\u2019s biggest trading partner, China.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Taiwan-related expressions [in the joint statement] are \u2018very general expressions\u2019,\u201d Chung said a day after the statement was released. As if this clarification was not enough, Chung\u2019s deputy, Choi Jong-gun, added: \u201cChina would appreciate the fact that South Korea does not see China as an enemy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/mar\/07\/south-koreas-presidential-candidates-face-balancing-act-amid-rising-anti-china-sentiment\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With an election days away, the two leading candidates must negotiate pitfalls of a reliance on US for security and on China for tradeWhen Moon Jae-in, the outgoing president of South Korea, returned home from Washington in May last year, his foreign m&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2096,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,222,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-south-korea","category-us-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2096"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42221"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42222,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42221\/revisions\/42222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}